Alexander Ignor

Alexander Maria Ignor (born November 11, 1953 in Berlin ) is a German criminal defense attorney , lawyer and university professor . He is known for his legal representation in criminal proceedings with historical significance, before parliamentary committees of inquiry and in proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court . Since 2003 he has held an extraordinary professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Ignor grew up in Berlin and attended the Canisius college there, where he graduated from high school in 1973. His father is the screenwriter and lyricist Alfred (Fred) Ignor, who worked as the presenter of the RIAS show "Schlager der Woche".

After graduating from high school, Ignor studied law and history at the Free University of Berlin . After the first state examination in law in Berlin in 1979, he worked as a research assistant to Ludwig Schmugge and as a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) On the subject of "On general legal thinking by Eikes von Repgow " received the licentiate .

In 1983 Ignor moved to the Faculty of Law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen as an assistant . After completing his legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in Stuttgart in 1986. In 1995 he did his doctorate with Ellen Schlüchter at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg on the criminal offense of insulting as a Dr. iur. In 1997 he also completed his habilitation in Würzburg under Dietmar Willoweit with an investigation into the history of criminal proceedings in Germany in the years 1532–1846 and was awarded the license to teach criminal law, criminal procedural law and medieval and modern legal history. Ignor has been an adjunct professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2003 . There he teaches criminal law and criminal procedure law.

Since 2007 Ignor has been chairman of the criminal law committee of the German Federal Bar . From 2014 to 2015 he was a member of the StPO expert commission set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection for the more effective and practical design of general criminal proceedings and juvenile court proceedings as well as the expert commission on the reform of homicides.

Ignor is married.

Legal activity

Alexander Ignor has been working as a lawyer in Berlin since 1987 . He began his legal career in the office of the later member of the Bundestag, Peter Danckert . Today he works in the law firm Ignor & Partner, which specializes exclusively in the field of criminal law, especially in the field of white-collar crime and in criminal proceedings in the political arena. In the post-reunification period, Ignor defended former functionaries of the GDR , including the State Secretary in the GDR's Foreign Trade Ministry, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski .

In the course of the CDU party donation scandal , he defended the former CDU party leader and Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble .

In 2006, Ignor represented the editor-in-chief of the political magazine Cicero , Wolfram Weimer , on his constitutional complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court , which led to the landmark Cicero judgment .

Ignor represented the Episcopal See of Limburg in the context of the investigation into whether against the former Bishop of Limburg, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst , and other people in connection with the construction work on the bishopric, an investigation on suspicion of infidelity at the expense of the Episcopal See to Limburg is to be initiated.

Together with Christoph Möllers and Christian Waldhoff , he represented the Federal Council in the second NPD ban proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court in 2017 .

Scientific and journalistic activity

Ignor is the author and publisher of legal publications on legal history, criminal and criminal procedure law, criminal defense as well as expert and legal policy statements. Outside of traditional legal formats, he participates in the public debate on current legal cases or legal-political issues.

Important publications

• About general legal thinking Eikes von Repgow , Schöningh, Paderborn 1984, ISBN 3-506-73342-7
• The offense of insulting. On the problems of § 185 StGB with regard to the certainty requirement of Article 103, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 978-3789039287
• History of the Criminal Trial in Germany 1532-1846. From Carolina Charles V to the reforms of the Vormärz , Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 978-3506733986

Web links

• Alexander Ignor's website with a list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ^ Humboldt University of Berlin · Faculty of Law. Retrieved November 8, 2018 . 
2. ^ Humboldt University of Berlin · Faculty of Law. Retrieved November 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ mhermann: Federal Chamber of Lawyers ~ Committee on Criminal Law. Accessed November 8, 2018 (German). 
4. ^ Website of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. Retrieved November 8, 2018 . 
5. ^ Website of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. Retrieved November 8, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Gerhard Mauz: "Revolutionary for Peace" . In: Der Spiegel . tape 32 , August 5, 1991 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 8, 2018]).
7. ^ The parade of the star lawyers in the regional court . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on November 8, 2018]).
8. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, 1st Senate: Federal Constitutional Court - decisions - ordering a search and seizure in the editorial rooms of a magazine violate the freedom of the press due to insufficient consideration of the protection of informants - interference in the confidentiality of the editorial work as well as in the sphere of trust between the media and informants. February 27, 2007, accessed November 8, 2018 . 
9. ↑ unimess GmbH - www.unimess.de: Lawyer criminal law Berlin - Ignor & Partner GbR. Retrieved November 8, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, 2nd Senate: Federal Constitutional Court - Decisions - No ban on the NPD due to a lack of evidence for a successful implementation of its anti-constitutional goals. January 17, 2017, accessed November 8, 2018 . 
11. ^ Humboldt University of Berlin · Faculty of Law. Retrieved November 8, 2018 .